About 30,000 Korean women are working as prostitutes in Japan, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.

Rep. Park Jae-wan of the largest opposition Grand National Party has researched online communities that link entertainment places and people for the past six months and found that 40,000 to 60,000 illegal Korean emigrants reside in Japan. Among them, about 30,000 Korean women work in the sex trade.

It isn’t only women who move to Japan for the sex business. Many young Korean men have also gone to Japan to work as prostitutes, he said.

Some of the brokers bragged about being a gigolo in Japan, saying that they can guarantee 10 million won in income per month along with Japanese language learning opportunity.

Park said that there are more than 70 online communities at a portal site serving as middlemen for prostitutes and their clients, and among them, more than 41 were actively working.

Though serving as a middleman for prostitutes is strictly prohibited in Korea, the online world has found ways to sneak past the authorities.

One of the postings mentioned that all the workers at the clubs and bars are Koreans and 90 percent of the visitors are Japanese. It said that the job itself does not pay well but it can connect the worker with wealthy men who would offer big money in exchange for sex.

Those who apply for the jobs are sent not only to Shinzuku, Akasaka and Ginza in Tokyo but also to Osaka or Kobe, or even some rural areas.

Moreover, many of the “overseas jobs’’ are linked to the dark side of Japanese society. Many people are said to be connected to Japanese gangsters called yakuza.

Unless a woman finds a customer, her salary is reduced. Also being late to work or sick leave are all calculated and deducted from her salary.

In addition, many Korean women are said to be visiting Japan on forged passports, identification cards or driving licenses.

Brokers sometimes pretend to be a go-between for international marriages.

Park proposed shutting down these portal sites, adding that he will soon make public the number of people going to China and Australia to work as prostitutes.

Why don’t you do something about today’s “sex slave” before accusing Japan?

Chinese are literally enslaving Korean women right NOW in China, but South Koreans are doing nothing to prevent. Not even a word.